JADE Credential Store

See more information about Credential Store here Using Credential Store to securely store authentication, connection and other parameters

Set-up KeePassX DB as Credential Store

Download KeePassX and create kdb file

• JADE Credential Store (CS) supports KeePassX DB version 1.0
• One can download the KeePassX desktop utility from https://www.keepassx.org/downloads/

Set-up Credential Store with Password

Step 1: Setup KeePassX DB

• Open the KeePassX utility
• Choose password as Master Key
• Assign password to KeePass DB and click OK

JADE will use the Master Key, i.e. "password" specified during creation process as access password of KeePassX DB.

Set-up Credential Store with PPK key

• Start KeePassX utility
• Click on Key File as Master Key
• Browse for pre generated ssh key as Master Key
• Click Ok and KeePassX will open and will be ready to add new entries.

Create Credential Store entries

Create Credential Store entry for FTP server

KeePassX DB can organize entries in logical groups, using groups and sub-groups.
One can organize Credential Store in groups, e.g. Internal-Server, External-Server etc, user is free to choose his own organization scheme.

• Create new top group i.e. sos
• Create new sub group i.e. server
• Create new entry wilm.sos for settings
  • Title: will be used as key in the hierarchy to access the credentials.
  • Username: field used to specify username, user name used for file transfer, i.e. FTP/SFTP user name
  • Password: password field is used to specify password, user can use the internal password generation mechanism to specify strong passwords
  • Comment: can contain extra parameters for JADE along with credentials, all/any JADE parameter can be specified in Comment section.
  • Expires: expiry date for the entry, user can define its own expiry period i.e. 90 days, or check option Never. JADE will raise an error if a KeePassX DB entry is not valid.
  • Attachment: can have any file used during transfer, i.e. public key

Create Credential Store entry for SFTP server

JADE profiles with Credential Store

Set-up global Credential Store profile

Define an profile having all the parameters concerning Credential Store. JADE can reuse any profile defined in same jade_settings.ini file.
It's recommended to create such fragments and reuse them in profiles.
Alternatively a user can define multiple KeePassX DB files, e.g. Test, Integration, Production and create corresponding profiles for the different environments.

Set-up global Credential Store profile with password

 ; Global Profile for KeePassX Database WithPassword
 [Keepass_DataBase_WithPassword]
 use_credential_Store                = true
 CredentialStore_FileName            = C:\sos-berlin.com\jade\credential-store\keepassX-test.kdb
 CredentialStoreAuthenticationMethod = password
 CredentialStore_password            = ********* 

Set-up global Credential Store profile with public key

 ; Global Profile for KeePassX Database With Public Key
 [Keepass_DataBase_WithPublicKey]
 use_credential_Store                = true
 CredentialStore_FileName            = C:\sos-berlin.com\jade\credential-store\keepassX-test.kdb
 CredentialStoreAuthenticationMethod = privatekey
 CredentialStore_KeyFileName         = C:\sos-berlin.com\jade\config\jade_cs_rsa.ppk

Set-up JADE profile for FTP

In this example we are including Credential store settings from global KeePassX database profile Keepass_DataBase_WithPassword .
JADE then will open the KeePassX DB and refer the entry sos/server/wilma.sos, we have already defined this settings in the KeePassX DB:

source_CredentialStore_KeyPath: JADE will refer the entry from KeePassX DB.

source_include: include Credential Store settings.

 [ReceiveUsingKeePass]
 source_include                 = Keepass_DataBase_WithPassword
 source_CredentialStore_KeyPath = sos/server/wilma.sos
 source_dir                     = /tmp/test/jade/out
 source_make_dirs               = true
 source_transfer_mode           = ascii
 target_protocol                = local
 target_dir                     = ${TEMP}/jade/in
 operation                      = copy
 file_spec                      = \.txt$
 transfer_mode                  = ascii

Set-up JADE profile for SFTP

 [ReceiveUsingKeePass]
 source_CredentialStore_KeyPath = sos/server/8of9.sos
 source_include                 = Keepass_DataBase_WithPassword
 source_dir                     = /tmp/test/jade/out
 source_make_Dirs               = true
 source_transfer_mode           = ascii
 target_protocol                = local
 target_dir                     = ${TEMP}/jade/in
 operation                      = copy
 file_spec                      = \.txt$
 transfer_mode                  = ascii

An Example Server to Server Transfer Profile using Credential Transfer

A profile definition for Server to Server transfer, from a FTP to a SFTP server:

 [transfer_server_2_server]
 include                        = Keepass_DataBase_WithPassword
 file_spec                      = ^.*\.txt$
 operation                      = copy
 source_CredentialStore_KeyPath = sos/server/wilma.sos
 source_dir                     = /tmp/test/jade/out
 target_CredentialStore_KeyPath = sos/server/8of9.sos
 target_dir                     = ${TEMP}/jade/in 

In this example all files with the file name extension .txt should be transferred from the server wilma via FTP to the server 8of9 by SFTP.

To start this with the command line client one must type:

 jade.sh -settings=name_of_settings_file -profile=transfer_server_2_server

Profile fragments SFTP with Public Key :TBD

To make the profile more reusable and readable it is possible to reuse profiles snippets in the way like this:

Profile fragments SFTP with Public Key :TBD

To make the profile more reusable and readable it is possible to reuse profiles snippets in the way like this:

See also

• Using_CredentialStore_to_securely_store_authentication,_connection_and_other_parameters]
• For infos about the parameters see the parameter documentation on jadeParameterReference.